Children have helped me a lot.
You can’t tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don’t mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don’t leave anything over.
Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.
Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.
What America needs most is aviation.
Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
I mean, I’m very, very competitive.
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.
Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.
Pies, para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar. (“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”)
Mr. Watson , come here, I want you
Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.
Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.
Me: Unbothered, moisturized, in my lane, well-hydrated, flourishing.
