I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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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.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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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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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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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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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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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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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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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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