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

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

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.

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

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

The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.