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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGiving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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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 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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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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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 believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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I 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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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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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!
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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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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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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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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