“Impossible means that you haven’t found a solution yet.”

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

It’s your thinking that decides whether you’re going to succeed or fail.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. 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 made today.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

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.

The more you think, the more time you have.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

If you destroy a free market you create a black market.

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.