“I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.”

“And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.”

“My business is to prevent the future.”

“Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”

“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”

“I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.”

“I find the business world hard.”

“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.”

“In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.”