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And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket.
Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the be
I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one’s resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making…
I can’t afford to pay them any other way.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
모든 영광의 상처는 스스로 자초한 일이다.
일을 시작할 때에 그일이 고통스럽다는 선입관을 가지면 피로가 부쩍 느는 원인이 된다. 일은 가벼운 태도로 시작하라. 정력적인 일을 하는 사람을 보면 가벼운 태도로 도리어 무거운 일들을 처리해 나가고 있다.
제조 문제의 가장 확실한 토대는 품질이다. 그 다음은 비용으로 훨씬 덜 중요하다.
혼자서 모든 일을 다 하려하나 모든 공을 독식하려는 자는 위대한 지도자가 될 수 없다.