American industry is spilling over with men who started life even with the leaders, with brains just as big, with hands quite as capable. And yet one man emerges from the mass, rises sheer about his fellows; and the rest remain.

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.

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.

Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives.

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

You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else.

The truth is that we have hitherto made no genuine effort to produce forged steel working parts of automobiles of the highest quality. That is one of the reasons why our automobiles have not ranked with those of foreign make.