People are as happy as they choose to be.
An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.
Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.
The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.
Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry.
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry.
Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer.
I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.
If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.
What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power
To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.
Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.
The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.
History's just one darn thing after another.
Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.
When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.
Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.
The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.
Many persons think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. The security even of money depends on knowledge, experience, and ability. If productive ideas are displaced by destructive ideas, economic life suffers.
The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.
Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.
A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.
Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.
The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.
Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose
Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.
People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.
The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.
The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.
Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.
Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.
The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.
