The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.
Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.
Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.
Do real and permanent good in this world.
Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.
It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.
Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.
My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.
I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.
It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.
Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Every man gravitates to where he belongs in life, just as surely as water seeks and finds its level. His position is measured precisely by the quality and quantity of the service he renders, plus the mental attitude with which he relates himself to other people.
The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.
Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.
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