“Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.”

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

We work to become, not to acquire.

If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

I don’t want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I’d rather work until 6 or 7.

The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.

Things are working out… towards their dazzling conclusions.

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.

An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.