An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.

We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life.