We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
John D. Rockefeller
The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
Gene Roddenberry
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl R. Rogers
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.
Will Rogers
I never met a man I didn't like.
A man is a god in ruins.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
Prince Of Wales Charles
If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa --slightly off balance.
All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
Ray Charles
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Ogden Nash
I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.
Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.
The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.
If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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