I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGiving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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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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God gave me my money.
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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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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 was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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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 most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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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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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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