Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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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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