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

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

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

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

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.

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

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

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

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