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.

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

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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

The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.

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.

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

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