Young men starting in life should avoid running into debt. - P. T. Barnum

"The Rothschilds have another maxim: "Never have anything to do with an unlucky man or place." That is to say, never have anything to do with a man or place which never succeeds, because, although a man may appear to be honest and intelligent, yet if he tries this or that thing and always fails, it is on account of some fault or infirmity that you may not be able to discover but nevertheless which must exist.

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it. "Like causes produce like effects." If a man adopts the proper methods to be successful, "luck" will not prevent him. If he does not succeed, there are reasons for it, although, perhaps, he may not be able to see them."

I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.

"Go on in confidence, study the rules, and above all things, study human nature; for
"the proper study of mankind is man," and you will find that while expanding the intellect
and the muscles, your enlarged experience will enable you every day to accumulate more
and more principal, which will increase itself by interest and otherwise, until you arrive
at a state of independence. You will find, as a general thing, that the poor boys get rich and the rich boys get poor."