Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.
If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.
If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of.
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.
A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.
The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job... Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.
Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.
Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.
When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.
Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.
Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.
Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it
The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.
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