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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.

John D. Rockefeller

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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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Himself Important Men Possession Religion
Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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Lesson Life Motivational Purpose
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.
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Goodness Impression Myself Slave
I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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Best Company Competition Myself Price Success
I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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Believe Development Gift God Goodness Kind Man Money Ourselves
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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Encouragement Happiness Health Life Person Secret Sympathy Understand
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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Business Capital See Work
If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Election Identity Myself Name
I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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Company Hard Work Myself Way Work
I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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Believe Generosity Honesty Kindness Money Religious Yourself
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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Average Goodness Leadership Management People Work
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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Competition Cost Difficult Himself Ignorance Intelligent Man Run Strong Time
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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Believe Condition Country Fundamental Myself Son Sound
Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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Beginning Blessing Foundation Life Man Men Struggle Young
Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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Doctor Medicine Progressive
I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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History Myself Nation Thinker Work
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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Deep Man Money Myself Poor World
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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Children Father Learning Mother Perfection Simplicity Task Teaching
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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Inspirational Leadership Nature Perseverance Quality Success Thinking
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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Care Charity Greedy Men Money Myself True
The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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Build Fortune Land Money
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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Born Element Food Wealth Yourself
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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Choice Creativity Deep Freedom Mother Myself Wife
I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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Fear Myself Night Place Success Thinking
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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Charity Independent Injury Motivational
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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Believe Live Myself
The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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Greatness Men Service Successful World

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