If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.
Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.
Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.
The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.
I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.
Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.