If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.

There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don’t talk of them, I prefer talking to them

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires 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

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.

A collection is like a dinner party. It is made up of the people you invite, but also the people you don't.

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.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

If you think you can, or if u think you can't.. Either way ur correct... It's the thinking that makes it so.

Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

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.

I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

There are no doubts in the value of Juventus. Many things, such as the new stadium, have strengthened the club.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

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.

There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.

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.

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