Pioneering don’t pay

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves

There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate

You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don’t go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold

I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I’ll show you a winner every time

Young man, make your name worth something

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs

The older I get, the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave

The secret of happiness is renunciation

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit

Concentration is my motto. First honesty, then industry, then concentration

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it