Young man, make your name worth something.

Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.

The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.