If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap.

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.

Steel is prince or pauper.

Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Pioneering don't pay.

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.