A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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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Giving 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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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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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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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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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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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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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 can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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 made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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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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