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"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people."

"A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship."

"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing."

"The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character."

"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets."

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."

"I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living."

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in."

"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

"I have ways of making money that you know nothing of."

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."

"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."

"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."

"Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty."

"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."

"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."

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