He who will not economize will have to agonize.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money, and that is in a business of your own.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall be given a square deal.

Money grows on the tree of persistence.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

I am more interested in the return of my money than I am with a return on my money.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.