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.

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

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

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.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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.

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.