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?
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGiving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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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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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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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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