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

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

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

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

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.

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

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

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.