“Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.”

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.

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.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

But if you’re talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.

The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.