Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERTo think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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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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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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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 was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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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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