One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.

That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.

Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations.... Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.

For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.