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

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

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

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

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

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

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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

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

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