I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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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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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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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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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 success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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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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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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