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.

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.

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.

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.

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

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

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!