The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.
If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.
You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.
Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means
Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.
Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my small amusements, have created such precious art is my life's proudest achievement.
Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once.
A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
Money is the excellent slave and a horrible master.
Whatever you do, do it ardently.
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.
I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success.
In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.
No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.
Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always ‘under the harrow’.
With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.
Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.
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