The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.