Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result. Then we go ahead and try to make the price. We do not bother about the costs. The new price forces the cost down.

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

Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.

There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.