Quote #24

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

More from John D. Rockefeller

  1. If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
  2. Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
  3. If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
  4. Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
  5. I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
  6. The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other un…
  7. 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 sa…
  8. The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

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