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

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.

The first thing to do about an obstacle is simply to stand up to it and not complain about it or whine under it but forthrightly attack it. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.

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.