I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERMy 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 believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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 ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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