Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

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

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.