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

— John D. Rockefeller Complete Speaker's and Toastmaster's Library (1992)

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

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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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Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

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