Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.