My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.
A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.
Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.
One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.
Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'
Do real and permanent good in this world.
There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.
Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.
Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.
The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.
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