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.

There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

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

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!