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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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