Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

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.

...the law which is never to be broken is never required.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.