“I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.”

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.

The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?

I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

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.

The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

Men wear hearts on the sleeves that boys wipe their noses on.

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I’d imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.

I am a bad boy. I don’t come across clearly to a lot of people, so I am bad for them.

A crowned queen was never treated with more reverence than I was by those whole-souled western boys, And for seventeen long years I was just their little sister, sharing both their news of joy and sorrow from home.

Boys are quite often whimsical. Whereas girls are modest by nature and know their responsibilities very well. Their weapons are service, sacrifice, and love, by which they conquer over the males.

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?