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“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.”
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
“The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.”
“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
“Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.”
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”
“The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?”
“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”
“Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.”
“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.”
“I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
“Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.”
“Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.”
“Competition is a sin.”
“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.”