Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.

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.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.

Do real and permanent good in this world.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.