There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

I find all this money a considerable burden.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.