"Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work."

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."

"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."

"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."

"I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense."

"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."

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

"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life."

"Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

"As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."

"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."

"Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right."

"Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again."

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

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."

"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

"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."

"Vision without execution is just hallucination."

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

"I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible."

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."

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

"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."

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

"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it."

"I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago."

"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."

"The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence."

"New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is."