A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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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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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
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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 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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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