In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.

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.

Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.

One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.