I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

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