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. ROCKEFELLERCompetition is a sin.
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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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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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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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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 earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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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 believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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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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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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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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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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