Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

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.

The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.

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.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.