Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook.
Bragging often precedes begging.
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
A nation’s economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation’s economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.
Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.