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

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.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.