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

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

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

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.

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

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.

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

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

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.