Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience

What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.

Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

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.