I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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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I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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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 had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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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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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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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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Own nothing, control everything.
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