If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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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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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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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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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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