“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great
“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
“Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist
“A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich
“There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice"