I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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 are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
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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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Competition is a sin.
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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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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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