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

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

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

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

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.

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

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.