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

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

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

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

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

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

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

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

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