For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Few great men could pass personal.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.