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

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

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

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

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

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

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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

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