“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.”

Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one’s talents and gifts to the benefits of others – these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

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.