“The more you think, the more time you have.”

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.

Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.