There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

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

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

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

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.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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

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

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