Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

It is not the employer who pays—he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Asking “Who ought to be boss?” is like asking “Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?” Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.