Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.
After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.
The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you’re not.
If you don’t take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you’re not an executive.
To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.
Management is the art of getting three men to do three men’s work.
It’s not the increasing competition; it’s going back to real work that most of us complain about.
I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.
Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.
We all know that the nation can’t divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that’s how we get ahead.
In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.
Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.
Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.
Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.
Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.
Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.
Whether it’s marriage or business, patience is the first rule of success.
Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.