The 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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERNever lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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