The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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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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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I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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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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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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