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

If I were forty years younger, I should like to go into business again, for the association with interesting and quick-minded men was always a great pleasure.

But I have no dearth of interests to fill my days, and so long as I live I expect to go on and develop the plans which have been my inspiration for a lifetime.
During all the long period of work, which lasted from the time I was sixteen years old until I retired from active business when I was fifty-five, I must admit that I managed to get a good many vacations of one kind or another, because of the willingness of my most efficient associates to assume the burdens of the business which they were so eminently qualified to conduct.
Of detail work I feel I have done my full share.

As I began my business life as a bookkeeper, I learned to have great respect for figures and facts, no matter how small they were.

When there was a matter of accounting to be done in connection with any plan with which I was associated in the earlier years, I usually found that I was selected to undertake it.