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

Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

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

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their homes, cooked their meals and so on. So I went to the history books. Well, I could find out all about kings and presidents; but I could learn nothing of their everyday lives. So I decided that history is bunk.