Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.

When you go to buy, don’t show your silver

There are two rules for success. 1) Never tell everything you know.

Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00—2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

“I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there’s nothing lost.

The loftiest towers rise from the ground.

the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.