Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

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

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.