Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.

The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what he or she is told to do, and the other is the person who does no more than he or she is told to do.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.