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.

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

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.

I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.

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

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

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?