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

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

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

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

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

Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.