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.

Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that’s widely distributed.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

The petty economics of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor

Most persons who indulge in second thought don’t do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether or not they are or not.