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.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself

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.