Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities.

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.