“Business is business. It’s never personal. It can be cruel, it can be ruthless, but it is never personal.”

“The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.”

“To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.”

“it's just business nothing personal…”

“Really skilful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy. From this example, the principle can be seen.”

“You can miss a person you've never known.”

“Evil can kill a person, but never conquer a nation.”

“I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.”

“Never deceive a correct person. A correct person, when you deceive him, can become worse than an incorrect person.”

“We are not a Party of unbridled, brutal capitalism, and never have been. Although we believe in personal responsibility and personal initiative in business, we are not the political children of the "laissez-faire" school. We opposed them decade after decade.”