Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct.