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"When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future."
"Money the root of all evil, unless used for good purpose"
"A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders."
"The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail."
"Minicars produce miniprofits."
"The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited."
"Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it."
"No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land."
"We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage."
"As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their homes, cooked their meals and so on. So I went to the history books. Well, I could find out all about kings and presidents; but I could learn nothing of their everyday lives. So I decided that history is bunk."
"Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it."
"All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own."
"When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here."
"The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman."
"If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability"
"Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages."
"Mark my word - A combination airplane and motor car is coming."
"Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity - not simply for ourselves but for others - the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be."
"The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost."
"Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done"