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?
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThere is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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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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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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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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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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