“The major fortunes in America have been made in land.”

My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”

I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

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

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.

I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don’t have to build a wall to keep my people in.

I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death.

Love stories are built around people’s idiosyncrasies.

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.