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!
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 only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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I 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 can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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 was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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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