It isn’t what a man’s got in the bank, but what he’s got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.
You’ll find that education’s about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.
A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
Those who succeed can’t forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can’t forgive him for being a success.
You’ve got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
A business man’s conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.
True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady’s age.
There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he’s got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.
Give fools the first and women the last word.
Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he’s getting his way, while all the time he’s having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.
Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.
The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.
Having money and buying things with money is a good thing. But also do not forget to check occasionally to lose if you do not buy anything with money or not.
A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.
Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.
A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.