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Attributed
- A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts
his feats in it.
- A business absolutely devoted to service will
have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
- A business that makes nothing but money is a
poor business.
- A market is never saturated with a good product,
but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
- 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.
- As we advance in life we learn the limits of our
abilities.
- Asking "who ought to be the boss" is like asking
"who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing
tenor.
- Before everything else, getting ready is the
secret of success.
- Before every minute of action, there should be
an hour of thought.
- Business is never so healthy as when, like a
chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
- Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as
a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
- Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
- Coming together is a beginning; keeping together
is progress; working together is success.
- Competition is the keen cutting edge of
business, always shaving away at costs.
- Don't find fault, find a remedy.
- Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes
shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in
your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy
to execute your ideas.
- Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing
necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
- Every time I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my
hat.
- Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't
need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
- Failure is simply the opportunity to begin
again, this time more intelligently.
- I am looking for a lot of men who have an
infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
- I believe God is managing affairs and that He
doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything
will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
- I do not believe a man can ever leave his
business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
- If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would
have asked for a better horse.
- 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.
- If there is any one secret of success, ... it
lies in the ability in the other person's point of view and see things from
that person's angle as well as from your own.
- If you think you can do a thing or think you
can't do a thing, you're right. (See: Whether you believe you can do a thing
or not, you are right.)
- It has been my observation that most people get
ahead during the time that others waste.
- It is not the employer who pays the wages.
Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
- It is well that the 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.
- Life is a series of experiences, each one of
which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For
the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the
setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
- Many people miss opportunity because it came
disguised in overalls.
- Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks
them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings
that out, that's all.
- Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
- My best friend is the one who brings out the
best in me.
- Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it
into small jobs.
- Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goals.
- One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one
of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't
do.
- Quality means doing it right when no one is
looking.
- Speculation is only a word covering the making
of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and
services.
- The competitor to be feared is one who never
bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the
time.
- The international financiers are behind all war.
They are what is called the International Jew -- German Jews, French
Jews, English Jews, American Jews. I believe that in all these countries
except our own the Jewish financier is supreme... Here, the Jew is a threat.
- 1920
- The man who will use his skill and constructive
imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little
he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
- The only real security that a man can have in
this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
- There are two fools in this world. One is the
millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real
power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he
can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's
ills will be cured.
- There is joy in work. There is no happiness
except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
- 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.
- Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is
probably the reason why so few engage in it.
- Time and money spent in helping men to do more
for themselves is far better than mere giving.
- Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain
is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when
it should be in neutral.
- Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when
sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful
service.
- When everything seems to be going against you,
remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- Whether you believe you can do a thing or not,
you are right. (See: If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a
thing, you're right.)
- Why use up the forests which were centuries in
the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the
equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp
fields?
- Women do not win formula one races, because they
simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is
different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than
men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
- You can't build a reputation on what you are
going to do.
- You will find men who want to be carried on the
shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They
don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
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