"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

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

"History is bunk."

"When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves."

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

"If you give your son only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."

"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular."

"Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help."

"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children."

"The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves."

"I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things."