“The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.”

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

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

It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.

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

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

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

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.

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

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.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.

You grow more when you get more people’s perspective.

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

People don’t want gadgets, they want services.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.