If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Competition is a sin.
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.
Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.
The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.