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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERWho is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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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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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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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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