The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

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.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.