I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

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.

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

There is very little success where there is very little laughter.