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.

People spend money when and where they feel good.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

There are three great friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.

Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.

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.

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.

Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

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

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.

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.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win—if you don't, you won't.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.