To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

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.

You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don't mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don't leave anything over.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.