Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

What one does easily, one does well.

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

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

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.