While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

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

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

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

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.