Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

17 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt on investing, entrepreneurship and motivation.

On investing

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
We demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.
Believe you can, and you're halfway there.
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
Believe that you can and you are halfway there.
Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.