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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
If you think you can, or if u think you can't.. Either way ur correct... It's the thinking that makes it so.
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.
Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.
I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.
Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.
I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.
A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.
Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.
If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.
No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.
The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.
Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.
A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.
The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.
It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.
An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.
Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself
Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.