I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe. - Andrew Carnegie

I believe that higher wages to men who respect their employers and are happy and contented are a good investment, yielding, indeed, big dividends.

It may fairly be said that no man is to be extolled for doing what he cannot help doing, nor is he to be thanked by the community to which he only leaves wealth at death. Men who leave vast sums in this way may fairly be thought men who would not have left it at all had they been able to take it with them. The memories of such cannot be held in grateful remembrance, for there is no grace in their gifts.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.