The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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Competition is a sin.
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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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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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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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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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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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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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