No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.

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.

Any colour - so long as it's black.

There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.

Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.

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