One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

At the end of every day, having a clientele that speaks well of you, that's the largest source of business. I don't care what kind of business you're in. Clients referring us to their friends or relatives is so much more powerful than any advertising we could ever do.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. . . . I have yet to find a person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.