It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

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.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.

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