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.

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.