The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

Save when you can and not when you have to.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.