I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life.
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.
History's just one darn thing after another.
The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.
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.
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.
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.
No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.
If you think you can, or if u think you can't.. Either way ur correct... It's the thinking that makes it so.
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.
To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.
Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right
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.
..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.
The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts
A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business
We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.
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.
I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.
Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer.
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.
The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you still have to file your 990 each year.
There are people who say they can , others they can not . In general, they are all right .
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