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You Must Know All There Is To Know In Your Particular Field And Keep On The Alert For New Knowledge. The Least Difference In Knowledge Between You And Another Man May Spell His Success And Your Failure.

I Invented Nothing New. I Simply Assembled The Discoveries Of Other Men Behind Whom Were Centuries Of Work. Had I Worked Fifty Or Ten Or Even Five Years Before, I Would Have Failed. So It Is With Every New Thing. Progress Happens When All The Factors That Make For It Are Ready, And Then It Is Inevitable. To Teach That A Comparatively Few Men Are Responsible For The Greatest Forward Steps Of Mankind Is The Worst Sort Of Nonsense.

Many Persons Think That By Hoarding Money They Are Gaining Safety For Themselves. If Money Is Your Only Hope For Independence, You Will Never Have It. The Only Real Security That A Man Can Have In This World Is A Reserve Of Knowledge, Experience, And Ability. Without These Qualities, Money Is Practically Useless. The Security Even Of Money Depends On Knowledge, Experience, And Ability. If Productive Ideas Are Displaced By Destructive Ideas, Economic Life Suffers.

The Two Most Important Things In Any Company Do Not Appear In Its Balance Sheet: Its Reputation And Its People.