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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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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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Own nothing, control everything.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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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 would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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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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My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
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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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