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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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