I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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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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I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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