It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble.

I am not a believer in large salaries. I hold that every man should be paid for personal production. Our big men at Bethlehem seldom get salaries of over one hundred dollars a week; but all of them receive bonuses computed entirely on the efficiencies and the economies registered in their departments.

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.