I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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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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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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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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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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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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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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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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Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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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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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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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’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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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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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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