The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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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 never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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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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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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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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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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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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I 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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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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