“If it doesn’t add value, it’s waste.”

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

Don’t expect people to respect you for what you are “planning” to do.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Whatever you resist will persist.

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Had Mittag-Leffler had his way, I should have to wait until the year 1984, which to me seemed too great a demand!

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

The most important investment of our time is in our people and in our youth.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

Trust in the process you are now experiencing. Life is on your side. It is showing that to you now, though you may not be able to see it clearly at this time.

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.