Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.
Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!
I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.