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!
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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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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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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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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I raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
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