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

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.

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

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

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.

Perhaps nothing in all my business has helped me more than faith in my fellow man. From the very first I felt confident that I could trust the great, friendly public. So I told it quite simply what I thought, what I felt, what I was trying to do. And the response was quick, sure, and immediate.