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

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.

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

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

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

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

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.

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