“Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.”

It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.

There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.

If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.

If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?

The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.

There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.