Life is an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
If I were to try to read much less answer all the attacks made on me this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
I buy when other people are selling.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Business that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
I married two weeks after my 18th birthday far too young and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children Sean Daniel and Victoria living in a prefab house.
My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday I got a .22. He got a hunting knife I got a hunting knife.
My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.
Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know we always honor her birthday.
And for the city's birthday we will host events in every neighborhood of the city inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.
As I approach my 88th birthday it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears among other appurtenances aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible and I cried for three days.
When I was a kid for my birthday every year my mother made me pasta bechamel which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.
The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
When I turned 60 it didn't bother me at all.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.