I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

Don't talk to me about appealing to the public. I am done with the public, for the present anyway. The public reads the headlines and that is all. The story itself is fair and shows the facts. That would be all right if the public read the facts. But it does not. It reads the headlines and listens to the demagogues and that's the stuff public opinion is made of.

Gold is money. Everything else is credit.

Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.

Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it...Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.