The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.
