Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself

The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.

If it doesn't add value, it's waste.

I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life.

The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.