The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.