The disciplined are free.
No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.
I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice – in giving a failure another chance.
Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.
The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
What you don’t do can be a destructive force.
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
The rain comes and what bends will rise. It is a purposeful journey.
Your mind makes a cruel master, but a generous servant.
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
