A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERNext to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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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 one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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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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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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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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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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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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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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