My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Some of our problems can no more be solved correctly by majority opinion than can a problem in arithmetic and there are few problems that cannot be solved according to what is just and right without resort to popular opinion.

The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress.

There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.