If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERWe 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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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Competition is a sin.
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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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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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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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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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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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