An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege, we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Don’t find fault find remedy anybody can complain.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.