I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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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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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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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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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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