The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLEROften-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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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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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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