... 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.

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.

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

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

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

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.