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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.

John D. Rockefeller

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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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Combination Return Stay Unique
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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Business Duty Inspirational Obligation Opportunity Responsibility Right
Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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Capital Force Intelligence Legislation Restriction Wild
To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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Himself Power Rich Thinking
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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Advice Business College Education Men Myself Rule Thinking Training Young
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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Inspirational Leadership Nature Perseverance Quality Success Thinking
I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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Fear Myself Night Place Success Thinking
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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Average Goodness Leadership Management People Work
I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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Company Hard Work Myself Way Work
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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Believe Happiness Himself Life Pursuit Right
Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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Generosity Joy Lost Myself
I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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Influence Lower Myself Religion Truth
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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Competition Cost Difficult Himself Ignorance Intelligent Man Run Strong Time
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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Boy Chance Cheating Myself Skin Trade
When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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Government Law Men Money Right
Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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Betrayal Reality Time Yourself

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