I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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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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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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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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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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Competition is a sin.
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I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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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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God gave me my money.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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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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