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

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

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

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

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

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.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

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

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