I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a good thing to know - something that might come in handy.

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.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

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

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

What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product.

I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.