- You want some good advice.
- Rise early.
- Be abstemious.
- Be frugal.
- Attend to your own business and never trust it to another.
- Be not afraid to work, and diligently, too, with your own hands.
- Treat every one with civility and respect.
- Good manners insure success.
- Accomplish what you undertake.
- Decide, then persevere.
- Diligence and industry overcome all difficulties.
- Never be mean-rather give than take the odd shilling.
- Never postpone till tomorrow what can be done today.
- Never anticipate wealth from any source but labor.
- Honesty is not only the best policy, but the only policy.
- Commence at the first round and keep climbing.
- Make your word as good as your bond.
- Seek knowledge to plan, enterprise to execute, honesty to govern all.
- Never overtrade.
- Never give too large credit.
- Time is money.
- Reckon the hours of the day as so many dollars, the minutes as so many cents.
- Make few promises.
- Keep your secrets.
- Live within your income.
- Sobriety above all things.
- Luck is a word that does not apply to a successful man.
- Not too much caution-slow but sure is the thing.
- The highest monuments are built piece by piece.
- Step by step we mount the pyramids.
- Be bold-be resolute when the clouds gather, difficulties are surmounted by opposition.
- Self-confidence, self-reliance is your capital.
- Your conscience the best monitor.
- Never be over-sanguine, but do not underrate your own abilities.
- Don't be discouraged.
- Ninty-nine may say no, the hundreth, yes: take off your coat: roll up your sleeves, don't be afraid of manual labor! America is large enough for all-strike out for the west.
- The best letter of introduction is your own energy.
- Lean on yourself when you walk.
- Keep good company.
- Keep out of politics unless you are sure to win - you are never sure to win, so look out.