This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.