Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERA man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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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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Competition is a sin.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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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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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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