Impossible means that you haven’t found a solution yet .
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
There are people who say they can, others they can not. In general, they are all right .
Who stops learning may be old.
Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.
Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.
Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.
It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.
We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.
A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.
Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about – men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with their last year’s ideas.
Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.
The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.
Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.
When you get a whole country – as did ours – thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.
When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.
Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man’s independence.
We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use – not conservation – that interests us.
Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!
People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.