All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

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.

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.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

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.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Silver and gold I have none; but such as I have give I thee.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.