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.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work

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

[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.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

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