William John Henry Boetcker (1873–1962) was an American religious leader and influential public speaker.
Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world.
It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they don't work that causes all their troubles.
A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
True religion. . . is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.
If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.
Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.
If the majority of people of a country, no matter how great its natural resources, organize and conspire to get more out and put less in, to do less and get more, how long will, how long can it last?
A man who tries to make the workmen believe that their employers are their natural enemies is indeed the worst enemy of workmen. For the employees of yesterday are the employers of today, and the employees of today can and will partly be the employers of tomorrow.
The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power
When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.
Before you can write a check, you must first make out a deposit slip; before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into a bank; before you are entitled to a living, you must give the world a life; if you want to make a first-class living, learn to give the world a first-class life.