“I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself – in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put in into himself.”
Attitude
“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!”
Success
“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.”
“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”
Money
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
“Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.”
Perspective
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point to view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.”
Profit
“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
Failure
“Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”
Obstacles
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
Business
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
“I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.”
Thinking
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
Mistake
“The only real mistake is one from which we learn nothing.”
Quality
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
Vision
“Vision without execution is just hallucination.”
Enthusiasm
“Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.”
Wealth
“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”
Time
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
Work
“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”
