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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

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.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

I buy when other people are selling.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

The business of America is business.

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.

God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.

We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into it. 'It is written' is the weapon used by the world's Redeemer. Let us keep close to the Word. Let us allow the Lord Jesus and His messengers to testify. We know that their testimony is true.

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.

Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked.

Grace, like an angel of mercy, makes his voice heard sweet and clear, repeating the story of the cross, the matchless love of Jesus.

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

Souls cannot be saved without exertion.

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul.

A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.