A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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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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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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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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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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Competition is a sin.
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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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