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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

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

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

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