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

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

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

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

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

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

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

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.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.