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.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.

Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.

Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.

I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.