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.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

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

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.