Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.