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.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

He that cannot reason is a fool.

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer