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.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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

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

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

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

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

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