I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind.

A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job... Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.

If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.