“The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.”

“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”

“You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.”

“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”

“That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.”

“Speculation into thing already produced that is not business”

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”