A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.

Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.

There's no such thing as no chance.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.