Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

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