There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.