I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality. The effect of attention to quality, upon every man in the service, from the president of the concern down to the humblest laborer, cannot be overestimated.

No man can become rich without himself enriching others

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

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.

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