All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.
A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.
Reading musses up my mind.
When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.
I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.
I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.
I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation... time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock... I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.
He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.
A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.
Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.
Minicars produce miniprofits.
The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.
America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.
People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.
Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.
New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.
Whether we think we can or cannot, we are right.
If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability
I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.
I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.
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