Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERTo think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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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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I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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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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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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I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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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The common denominator for success is work.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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