There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what he or she is told to do, and the other is the person who does no more than he or she is told to do.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.

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.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.

I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.