"I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny"

"Business is the salt of life"

"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny"

"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"

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"A man should never neglect his family for business"

"Anatomy is destiny"

"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"

"The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do"

"Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny, they're not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance if the circumstances around them suck they change them"