"There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration — and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in spring than in any other season. In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of twenty-four hours."

"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."

"Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, you coast for awhile, you have a hell of a closing."

"Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business."

"Most of the trouble in the world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has."

"A man should never neglect his family for business."

"The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives."

"There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable."

"Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business."

"I don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don’t believe in God, or at least not in the one we’ve invented for ourselves in England to fulfill our peculiarly English needs, and certainly not in the ones they’ve invented in America who supply their servants with toupees, television stations and, most importantly, toll-free telephone numbers. I wish that people who did believe in such things would keep them to themselves and not export them to the developing world."

"In order to be irreplaceable - one must always be different."

"You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do."

"Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."