"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."

"Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless."

"Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."

"The paradox of freedom is that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy."

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."