If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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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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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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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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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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