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.

The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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