The wise and moral man shines like a fire on the hilltop, making money like the bee, who does not hurt the flower.

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

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

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

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.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

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

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

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.

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.

Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.

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.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.

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.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.