The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Young man, make your name worth something.

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

The sound rule in busi­ness is that you may give money freely when you have a sur­plus, but your name never-nei­ther as en­dorser nor as mem­ber of a cor­po­ra­tion with in­di­vid­ual li­a­bil­ity

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.