The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.

Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.

The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.

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 never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.