Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERSuccess comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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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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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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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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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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