"Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration."
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"Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit."
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"Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital."
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"Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it."
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"Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities."
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"Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity."
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"TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results."
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"The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship."
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"I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns."
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"It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place."
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"The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him."
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"Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket."
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"There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money."
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"I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality. The effect of attention to quality, upon every man in the service, from the president of the concern down to the humblest laborer, cannot be overestimated."
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"I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution."
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"Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available."
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"Do real and permanent good in this world."
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"My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came."
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"I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'"
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"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave."
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