It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
History is more or less bunk.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.