There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
The principle of democratic guvernment is liberty. Politics
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest, we must learn to sail in high winds.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
The more you own, the more you know you don't own.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
I have no friends and no enemies only competitors.
Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.
After a certain point, money is meaningless, it ceases to be the goal, the game is what counts.
I miss the reality of doing a play where the only thing at stake is the work.
I had a loving family, and in that way I was lucky, because that saved me from some of the temptations.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Wit is educated insolence.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Well begun is half done.