The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.