» No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
» As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
» The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
» Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket...
» Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
» No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
» All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
» Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
» I can't afford to pay them any other way.
» I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.