It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe common denominator for success is work.
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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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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 believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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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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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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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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Own nothing, control everything.
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Competition is a sin.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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