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

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

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

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

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.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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

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