Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don't pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.

Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.