I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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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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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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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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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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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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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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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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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 had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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