15 Quotes by Herbert Newton Casson

The reaper can be produced only in countries where labor receives a high reward, where farmers own their own acres without fear of being despoiled by invading armies, where average of intelligence is as high in the country as in the city.

First come the dreamers, the theorists, the heroic innovators who awaken the world's brain upon a new line of thought. Then come the pioneers who solve certain parts of the problem and make suggestions that are of practical value. And then, in the fullness of time, comes one masterful man who is more of a doer than a dreamer, who works out exact combination of ideas to produce the result, and establishes the new product as a necessary part of the whole human family.

Every winner has scars.

Steel can be tempered and hardened, and so can men. In this world of struggle, which was not designed for softies, a man must be harder than what hits him. Yes, he must be diamond-hard. Then he’ll not be “fed up” with his little personal troubles.

A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.

There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.

There is no fate that plans men’s lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

The men who succeed are the efficient few.

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.