"On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier"

"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"

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"

"A man should never neglect his family for business"

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation"

"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"

"The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress"