Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it.

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.