American industry is spilling over with men who started life even with the leaders, with brains just as big, with hands quite as capable. And yet one man emerges from the mass, rises sheer about his fellows; and the rest remain.

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.

I am not a believer in large salaries. I hold that every man should be paid for personal production. Our big men at Bethlehem seldom get salaries of over one hundred dollars a week; but all of them receive bonuses computed entirely on the efficiencies and the economies registered in their departments.

I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.