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

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

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

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

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

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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

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

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

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