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.

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 business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.

Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.

One who fears failure limits his activities.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.