Occupation: Journalist Birth: May 14, 1880 Death: May 6, 1954
Use life to provide something that outlasts it..
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs..
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refus….
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result..
Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving..
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so ….
I don't feel myself that I Know it all, but I have enough conceit to be successful. That observation was made by a businessman in his 30s who was mak….
Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to note the attitude of workers ….
The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for tho….
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook.
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to..
How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in busine….
If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of dire….
You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are..
Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as individuals, utilize our prin….
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated..
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder..
Jealousy... is a mental cancer..
J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, wi….
A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. We….
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that t….