Save when you can and not when you have to.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERNever was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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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 was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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