There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Competition is a sin.
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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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