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

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.

The more you think, the more time you have.

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.

People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird’s eye view and they don’t create a systematic plan.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.

Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can’t cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

In business, you take a swing and you hope that you hit a home run, but sometimes you strike out. Strikeouts and failures are important. Being down, getting punched in the gut every once in a while by life and coming back up, that’s accomplishment.