Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk of anoth….

When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been s….

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and….

To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith..

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an expl….

Had I not gone through the ordeal, in more than one country, of landing a job, I would he tempted to lose patience over the number of letters pouring….

The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and….

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others..

The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have as [a company] president a….

Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the mind prompts the action, ….

He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can do so many worthwhile things in this world,….

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….

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon….

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert..

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..

First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth do….

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease..

Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake and attentive during his serm….

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious..

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive..

If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you..