Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.