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.

- William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

- William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

- William J. H. Boetcker

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

- William J. H. Boetcker

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

- William J. H. Boetcker

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.

- William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

- William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

- William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

- William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

- William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

- William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

- William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

- William J. H. Boetcker

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

- William J. H. Boetcker

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

- William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

- William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

- William J. H. Boetcker

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

- William J. H. Boetcker

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

- William J. H. Boetcker

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

- William J. H. Boetcker