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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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There 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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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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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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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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