Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

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.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.