An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.