“Understand the difference between being at work and working.”

Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

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.

People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.

Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.

You grow more when you get more people’s perspective.

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.