The most important history is the history we make today.

Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.

You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

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.

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

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.