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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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