The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

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

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.

If more persons would get so enthused over their day's work that some one would have to remind them to go out to lunch there would be more happiness in the world and less indigestion.

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.

Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.