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.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it’s knowing how to use the information you get.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Beware of the man who won’t be bothered with details

No man is a failure who enjoys life.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as...

It’s often a good idea to let the other fellow believe he is running things whether he is or not.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.

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

Life begins at 40 — but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.

He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go...

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

We all find time to do what we really want to do

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is to start now. While many of us are waiting until conditions are “just...

You can always tell a Harvard man — but you can’t tell him very much.

Success seems to be largely a matterof hanging on after others have let go.

Don’t let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

A hotel isn’t like a home, but it’s better than being a house guest.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain