A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe 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.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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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 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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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 was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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.
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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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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