Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.

I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.

Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.