If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.