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.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

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

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.