I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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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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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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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Giving 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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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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