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. ROCKEFELLERIt is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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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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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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