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"You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold."
"The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised."
"Pioneering don't pay."
"It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead."
"Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one."
"The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost."
"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade."
"Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened."
"Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself"
"A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity."
"Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none."
"Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out."
"I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar."
"If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained."
"Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate."
"...the law which is never to be broken is never required."
"All is well since all grows better"
"A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune."
"There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service."
"I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man."