Mutual Ignorance Breeds Mutual Distrust.

It Is More Difficult To Give Money Away Intelligently Than To Earn It In The First Place.

Concentrate Your Energy, Thought And Capital Exclusively Upon The Business In Which You Are Engaged... 'don't Put All Your Eggs In One Basket' Is All Wrong. I Tell You 'put All Your Eggs In One Basket, And Then Watch That Basket.'

As I Grow Older, I Pay Less Attention To What Men Say. I Just Watch What They Do.

Here Is The Prime Condition Of Success: Concentrate Your Energy, Thought And Capital Exclusively Upon The Business In Which You Are Engaged. Having Begun On One Line, Resolve To Fight It Out On That Line, To Lead In It, Adopt Every Improvement, Have The Best Machinery, And Know The Most About It.

In [my] Life ... I Did Not Understand Steam Machinery, But I Tried To Understand That Much More Complicated Piece Of Mechanism - Man.