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.

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

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

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

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

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

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

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

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

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