Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

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