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

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

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

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.

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

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

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

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

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

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