The common denominator for success is work.
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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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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 do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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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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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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