You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and un….

It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unl….

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much ….

When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts..

To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much l….

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack e….

When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower….

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim..

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail..

I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It lef….

Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes..

... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the co….

In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the ea….

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion..

Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business pro….

Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed mysel….

That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the….

Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build h….

Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers….

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure..

You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not spari….