Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.
The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.
Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.
Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.
The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money.
Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose.
A man’s college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done.
The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.
I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.
Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.
The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.
Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.
All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.
A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.
The greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.
Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn’t be enough left to run it.
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.