If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
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.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we make today.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
History is more or less bunk.
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.