"A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts."
"It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it."
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Source: The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life. Forbes magazine, 1950.
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