The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.
The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?
Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.
A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she’s sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.
A baseball game is twice as much fun if you’re seeing it on the company’s time.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
In many lines of wok, it isn’t how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.
The primary asset of any business is its organization.
A hotel isn’t like a home, but it’s better than being a house guest.
I have won every argument I ever had with myself.
Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.