When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

Every experience is worth having.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

Thinking is the hardest work we do.