A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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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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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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 was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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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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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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 believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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