Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThere is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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Competition is a sin.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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