Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work.

If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or a failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible: Are you able to save money? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you.

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.