The average man won’t really do a day’s work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.
When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.
History is more or less bunk.
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.
There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.
Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.
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.
Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience.
To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.
One who fears failure limits his activities.
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves.
The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .
There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.
The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.
If I’d listened to customers, I’d have given them a faster horse.