Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERBelieving 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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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
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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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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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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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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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 raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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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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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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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I 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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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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