Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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 friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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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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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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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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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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 can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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