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.

Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen.

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

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

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.

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.