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

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

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

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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

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

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

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

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.

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