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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGood leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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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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Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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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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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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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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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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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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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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