How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERTaxation 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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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.
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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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God gave me my money.
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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 have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Who 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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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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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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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