Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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