The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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

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

When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.

A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily