- All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
- I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself the master of that line.
- There is no class as pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
- Whatever I engage in, I push inordinately.
- I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.
- Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.
- A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind, like the body can be moved fro the shade into sunshine.
- No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
- Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.
- The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

