Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

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

Own nothing, control everything.

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.

Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks