I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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 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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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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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 wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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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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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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God gave me my money.
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There 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 believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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