I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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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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Competition is a sin.
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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.
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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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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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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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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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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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