The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
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The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
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Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
Silver and gold I have none; but such as I have give I thee.
Beware of over concern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.
Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.
Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
