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.

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

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.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

The biggest goal can be achieved if you simply break it down into enough small parts.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

If it is 'anti-Semitism' to say that communism in the United States is Jewish, so be it; but to the unprejudiced mind it will look very much like Americanism. Communism all over the world, not in Russia only, is Jewish.

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

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it.

If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.

There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.

There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

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

Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about -- men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with their last year's ideas.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.