The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.
Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Sometimes you just don't like somebody
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry.
Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.
One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.
A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.
Don't find the fault, find the remedy
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.
I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
If you think you can or cannot accomplish a task, you will be correct in either case.
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Thinking is the hardest work we do.
Many persons think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. The security even of money depends on knowledge, experience, and ability. If productive ideas are displaced by destructive ideas, economic life suffers.
Whether you think you will succeed or not, you are right.
The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.
Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.
Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.
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