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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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