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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERAfter it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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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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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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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