I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers