Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.

There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.