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.

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

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

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

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

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

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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

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