A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Nothing will work unless you do.