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

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.

It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.

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.

When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower story and the regular performance of the day's duties moved and motivated on the upper floor, while down below the all-absorbing problem toils silently, forcefully, toward its solution.

One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.