If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERA man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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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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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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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Competition is a sin.
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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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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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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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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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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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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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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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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