The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital.

If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.

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

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

In my own house I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know. Although I had received no technical education I made myself master of chemistry and of the laboratory, which proved of lasting value.