A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.
Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.
Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.
Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.
The only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel--only a means to an end.
When you get a whole country--as did ours--thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augurs ill for the future.
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
You see, this is my business. I built it up and as long as I live I propose to run it the way I want it run.
