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.

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

When you go into your customary barber shop, you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a little trimmer hair-cut. Business leaders are looking for the same things in their offices that you look for in the barber shop.

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.

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.

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

Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.