The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

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.

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.