Occupation: Journalist Birth: May 14, 1880 Death: May 6, 1954
Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is….
I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I ….
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others..
It's so much easier to do good than to be good..
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world..
There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you..
Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, s….
Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longe….
A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off….
The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far….
To make headway, improve your head..
It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That has been the history of the income tax. Would n….
A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in….
Henry Ford has several times sneered at unproductive stockholders.... Well, now. Let's see. Who made Henry Ford's own automobile company possible? Th….
What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled….
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer..
The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired..
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin..
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills..
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal..
Uncertainty hurts business. It annoys individuals. Why keep the whole country, including business and individuals, in uncertainty over the extent of ….