American
Businessman and
Civil Servant
(August 19,
1870 -
June 20,
1965)
"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself."
"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."
"The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles."
"Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong about his facts."
"If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible."
"In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
"Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want."
"Millions say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why."
"Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see."
"Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him and all the others."
"We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."
"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought."
