The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.

The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that is, that they will use the political power to plunder those-who-have.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.