"The most important thing for a young..." - Quote by John D Rockefeller

“Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!”

“Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks”

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

“I know them, yea,And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple;Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys,That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander,Go antickly, and show outward hideousness,And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;And this is all.”

“We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.”

“A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.”

“It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.”

“Mr.Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest.”

“But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.[Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]”