Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.

When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.

I can't afford to pay them any other way.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.