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

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

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

Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.