There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.

Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.

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.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.