Competition is a sin.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERA 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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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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Do 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 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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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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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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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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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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Own nothing, control everything.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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