Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

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

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

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

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

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

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

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

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