For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

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.

A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.

If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.