If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.

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

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.

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

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

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.

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

Born, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

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 key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

No, I don’t understand my husbands theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.