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

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

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

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

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.

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

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

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

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