"I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

"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"

"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop"

"Business is the salt of life"

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man"

"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 best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need"

"By the work one knows the workman"