When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

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.

Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages.