"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

"You take all the experience and judgement of men over fifty out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it."

"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice."

"Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."

"There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured."

"There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can."

"If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere."

"History is more or less bunk."

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

"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"

"Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next."

"If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it."

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs"

"There is one rule for industrialists and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible"

"It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history."

"Any colour - so long as it's black."

"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."

"Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain."

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't."

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

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."

"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."

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."

"Whatever you have, you must either use or lose."

"There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems."

"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't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."

"You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together."

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

"Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it."

"As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."

"There is one rule for industrialists and that is: make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you're right."

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."

"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."

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

"A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it."

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."

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

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."

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

"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."