The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

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

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

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

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 ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

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.