The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
Don’t let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.
If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact.
Work is the best method devised for killing time.
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine.
A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.
A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.
Know and believe in yourself and what others think won’t disturb you.
Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure.
The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.