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.

Many of the deficiencies of our economic system could be alleviated if ways were found to broaden the ownership of the means of production... This has happened in some companies through ESOPs. Successful approaches of this sort would pay dividends in terms of employee commitment and morale. And they would not deprive anyone of his present holdings since they are based on future growth.

Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.