There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.

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.

The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.