The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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.
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To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.
The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
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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.
'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.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.
Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
You don't have to be big or well known to be great.
The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
