Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.
It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.
I don’t believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.
Any idea that is held in the mind, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available.
Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.
He that cannot reason is a fool.
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.
The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.
Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.
Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.
The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.
Do real and permanent good in this world.
The secret of happiness is renunciation.
You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don’t go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold.
Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.