Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way.

To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.