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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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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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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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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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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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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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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 man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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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