“I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.”

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.

If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.

You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.

As we serve our jobs we serve the world.

The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

People are as happy as they choose to be.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can’t, you are right.

There’s this idea that because I’m a heavyweight, I’m not supposed to be in condition, that I should take advantage of the fact that I can eat. But I train and eat well, and it shows when I step on the scales.

The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Move only when you have an advantage. It’s very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.

It’s easy to be taken advantage of if you’re not honest.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.