Every great achievement was built on risk.

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

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

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.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

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.

The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

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

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.