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.

Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.

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

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.