The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks

I can't afford to pay them any other way.

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'