It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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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 shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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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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!
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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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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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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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Competition is a sin.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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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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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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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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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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