Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

Well-conducted business enterprise cannot fail to return a profit, but profit must and inevitably will come as a reward for good service.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.