Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

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.

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.

It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.

Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!

I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.