Competition is a sin.
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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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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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.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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God gave me my money.
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