If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.

Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

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

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.