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“A true-bred merchant is the best gentleman in the nation.”
“The object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.”
“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage — it encourages early rising.”
“To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.”
“Paperwork, cleaning the house, cooking—all the things no one else wanted to do—was my share of the work.”
“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time.”
“When you have a great and difficult task, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
“Hell, there are no rules here—we’re trying to accomplish something.”
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
“If you want to be a writer, write.”
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
“The man is nothing, the work — all.”