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

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

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

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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

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

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

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

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

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