Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

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.

Pioneering don't pay.

I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.

Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.