That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.