The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

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.

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.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.