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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.

John D. Rockefeller

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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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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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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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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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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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 raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
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I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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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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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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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 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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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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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 can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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