The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done

The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.