I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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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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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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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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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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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