Many persons think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. The security even of money depends on knowledge, experience, and ability. If productive ideas are displaced by destructive ideas, economic life suffers.

As we serve our jobs we serve the world.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.