All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

There is no shortcut to achievement.

One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.