The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Competition is a sin.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit a reputation character.

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

I believe in the dignity of labor whether with head or hand that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Next to doing the right thing the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Every right implies a responsibility Every opportunity an obligation Every possession a duty.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

The common denominator for success is work.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.