There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.