I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.

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

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

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

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

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.