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.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Think you can think you can't either way you'll be right.
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
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 can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.