It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.
What right have you, save service to the world, to think that other men’s labor should contribute to your gains?
Politics in the true sense, have to do with the prosperity, peace and security of the people.
We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.
That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.
The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.
There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry’s 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.
When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.
Edison, to a greater extent than has ever been recognized, is the father of American industrial methods.
You dont have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
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.
To do more for the world than the world does for you that is success.
As far as competition is concerned, that must continue. But we must learn what competition really is. It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.
If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they’ll work out their own salvation.
Although Mr. Edison was called ‘The Wizard’ of the electrical world and everyone thought that electricity was the coming thing, he actually encouraged me to go with my second car.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.
Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.
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