“Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets
“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality
“In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing
“We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects
“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way
“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay
“A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich
“And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department