To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Whether you believe you can or you believe you can't, you are correct.
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
