No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.

Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.

Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.

It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.