There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.