A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought.

If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.

When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.

This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

The most difficult job is the one that you never get started on.

A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.