There is very little success where there is very little laughter..

If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap..

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory..

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this….

Steel is prince or pauper..

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead..

He that cannot reason is a fool..

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave..

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man..

And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing t….

I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life..

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally..

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately..

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist..

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place..

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert..

The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance,….

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar..

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having b….

Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, gener….

Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attentio….