Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!
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Competition is a sin.
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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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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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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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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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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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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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