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The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it.
At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.
Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.
The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.
The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything.
We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.
Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
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.
As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow
Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.
Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it.
We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.
A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.
No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.
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.
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.
The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.
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
The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
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.
Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.
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.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.
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.
A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.
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
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.
The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.
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.
We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.
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.
We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.
Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best
Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.