I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERNever lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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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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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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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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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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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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God gave me my money.
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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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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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 believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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