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.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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