Never spend your money before you have earned it.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature—daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it—rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?

Common sense is the very antipodes of science.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Look at the stars and not down at your own feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

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.

Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

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.

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

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

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

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

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