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.

Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry.

The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.

Every experience is worth having.

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.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.