A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

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

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.