Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value.