I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.

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.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.