Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.

Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.