Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.