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.

I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

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 major fortunes in America have been made in land.