There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. 

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. 

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. 

 Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. 

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. 

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. 

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.  

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. 

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. 

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. 

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. 

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. 

 Don't find fault, find a remedy. 

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. 

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. 

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. 

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.  

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.  

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. 

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. 

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. 

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news. 

Treat each case as an individual case, and give every man an opportunity to earn just as much money as he is capable of earning. 

A manager is an assistant to his men. 

The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out. 

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. 

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. 

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.  

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.