I am naturally an optimist, and when it comes to a statement of what our people will accomplish in the future, I am unable to express myself with sufficient enthusiasm.
There are many things we must do to attain the highest benefit from all these great blessings; and not the least of these is to build up our reputation throughout the whole world.
The great business interests will, I hope, so comport themselves that foreign capital will consider it a desirable thing to hold shares in American companies.

It is for Americans to see that foreign investors are well and honestly treated, so that they will never regret purchases of our securities.
I may speak thus frankly, because I am an investor in many American enterprises, but a controller of none (with one exception, and that a company which has not been much of a dividend payer), and I, like all the rest, am dependent upon the honest and capable administration of the industries.

I firmly and sincerely believe that they will be so managed.
THE AMERICAN BUSINESS MAN You hear a good many people of pessimistic disposition say much about greed in American life.

One would think to hear them talk that we were a race of misers in this country.

To lay too much stress upon the reports of greed in the newspapers would be folly, since their function is to report the unusual and even the abnormal.