Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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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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 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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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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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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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 secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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