The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about - men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with their last year's ideas.

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.

Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

Reading musses up my mind.

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.