I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.

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

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap.

And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

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.