I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.

I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.