Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.

The sound rule in busi­ness is that you may give money freely when you have a sur­plus, but your name never-nei­ther as en­dorser nor as mem­ber of a cor­po­ra­tion with in­di­vid­ual li­a­bil­ity

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it