“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.”

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.

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.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

Strategy is figuring out what not to do.

What is the one sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.

If his forces are united, separate them.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

There’s a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.