The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERCapital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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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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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?
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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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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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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