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?
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERDon’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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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 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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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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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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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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