Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

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.

Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

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

The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.

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