The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.
Show me who makes a profit from war, and I’ll show you how to stop the war.
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.
What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
Thinking is the hardest work we do.
Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world’s failures.
If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.
The most difficult job is the one that you never get started on.
If people understood how the economic system works, there’d be a revolution in a minute.
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.
Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.
Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one’s talents and gifts to the benefits of others – these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.