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

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.

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.

The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.