If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

In my own house I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know. Although I had received no technical education I made myself master of chemistry and of the laboratory, which proved of lasting value.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.