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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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