"Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry."

"Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry."

"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."

"No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others."

"The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work."

"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."

"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."

"The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work."

"Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not."

"No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

"A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one."

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."

"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."

"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."

"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."

"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."

"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs"

"Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next."