There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.

Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold.