The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

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.

A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.

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

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.