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.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.

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

It is the customer that pays the wages

Every experience is worth having.

A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.