“I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.”

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can’t, you are right.

Success is 99% failure.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

If it doesn’t add value, it’s waste.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

fMoney doesn’t make us anyway it just unmasks us.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world’s failures.

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do. It’s simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!

The moment I used my adversity to my advantage, my career exploded.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.

Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.