Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.

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

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.

The primary asset of any business is its organization.