No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

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

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

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

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

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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

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

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.