"Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it"

"Business is the salt of life"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Success and failure are equally disastrous"

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

"A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him"

"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience"

"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure"

"A man should never neglect his family for business"

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes"

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business"