Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.

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.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.