“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.

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

Great companies are built on great products.

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

If you don’t enjoy it, don’t do it. You must love what you do.

As you reach your goals set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.