I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third, common sense.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions.

Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.