“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.”

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.