Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

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

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you.