Integrity is crucial for business success – once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.
The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.
I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.
The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.
It is the customer that pays the wages.
I could use a hundred people who don’t know there is such a word as impossible.
We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.
The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.
I was happier when I was doing a mechanic’s job.
I’ll sleep well tonight.
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives.
Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity – not simply for ourselves but for others – the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.
I didn’t get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.