The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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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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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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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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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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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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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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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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