Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.

The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.

The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.