A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIt is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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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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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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Competition is a sin.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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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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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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