A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

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.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

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