People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

What one does easily, one does well.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

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

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.