Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I’ll get all that’s good for me, and will what’s left to those who want it.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine.

An idea isn’t worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Few of us get anything without working for it

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard.

A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.

Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible.

Inability to pay decides for many of us perplexing questions that worry the well-to-do.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

We always admire the other person more after we’ve tried to do his job.

Unless a man is kicked around a little, you can’t really depend on him to amount to anything.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

. . . [but] next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is in having someone else do a first-rate job under your direction.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

Success makes us intolerant of failure, and failure makes us intolerant of success.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

No man is a failure who enjoys life

The only thrill worth while is the one that comes from making something out of yourself

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.

If people really liked to work, we’d still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we’ve got

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top

If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

A person or business without friends is insolvent.

Beware of the person who can’t be bothered by details.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

Know and believe in yourself, and what others think won’t disturb you.

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort

I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.