Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERAfter it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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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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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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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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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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Competition is a sin.
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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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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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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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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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The common denominator for success is work.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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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 have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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