Great Throughts Treasury

"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."

"The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is."

"There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors."

"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."

"Business must be profitable if it is to continue to succeed, but the glory of business is to make it so successful that it may do things that are great chiefly because they ought to be done."