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.

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.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

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

There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way.

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.