Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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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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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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God gave me my money.
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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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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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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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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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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