Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

People are as happy as they choose to be.

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.