There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done.

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

Businesses grow and they don't change enough and they decline over time. Retailers do that on a bit of a faster cycle.