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

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

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

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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

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

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

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

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

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