"Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States"

"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 man should never neglect his family for business"

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

"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"

"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men"

"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"

"I've learned that you can't make everyone happy, but as long as you do the right thing for your business, you'll be successful"