As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.

Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle o…

You don't hear any more of, 'Hey, we did something creative and we turned a profit, how about that?' Everywhere we look, we want to make the most money possibl…

Few men, indeed, are so mad that they do not know when they are doing wrong. But so avid is their pursuit of goods that wrongdoing has become an element of all…

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.