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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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