"To be popular is easy; to be right when right is unpopular, is noble... I repudiate with scorn the immoral doctrine, …"

"Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves."

"Watch the costs and the profits take care of themselves."

"Did you ever sum up these prizes and think how very little the millionaire has beyond the peasant, and how very often…"

"The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind togethe…"

"While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures …"

"Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends—the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the sa…"

"Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our r…"

"Thus is the problem of Rich and Poor to be solved. The laws of accumulation will be left free; the laws of distributi…"

"The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced."