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.

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

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

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.

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

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.

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