Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

Many persons think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. The security even of money depends on knowledge, experience, and ability. If productive ideas are displaced by destructive ideas, economic life suffers.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

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.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.