Pay for what you owe, and you'll know what's your own.

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

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

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money to do more for the betterment of life.

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.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

The surest way to relieve a man of his poverty is to make him uncomfortable in it.

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

Money grows on the tree of persistence.

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.

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.

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.

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

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

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

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.

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.