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.

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

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

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.

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

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.