To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something.
We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.
I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.
The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.
Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.
A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.
As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.