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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

John D. Rockefeller

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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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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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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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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Competition is a sin.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
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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 believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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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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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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