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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, character.

— John D. Rockefeller The Men Who Are Making America (1918)

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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

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