What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

A man who tries to make the workmen believe that their employers are their natural enemies is indeed the worst enemy of workmen. For the employees of yesterday are the employers of today, and the employees of today can and will partly be the employers of tomorrow.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.

Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man’s standing in the commercial and industrial world.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let’s change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, that is, the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.