In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.

It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous enterprise of some individual. It was Commodore Vanderbilt's enterprise in switching first from running a ferryboat to running other ships, and then, when he was well along in years, his enterprise in switching into railroading, that created what was to become one of the most notable fortunes in the history of the world.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.