It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERDo not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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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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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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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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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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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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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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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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