“I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.”

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.

I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.

Own nothing, control everything.

That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.

When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

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

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

I am Envy, I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.