When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.

Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.

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.

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.

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.