There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.
What one does easily, one does well.
Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.
The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.
All is well since all grows better.
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.
All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.
Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.
There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it.
Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade.
The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.
Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.
Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.