Achieve Quote by John D. Rockefeller

“Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?” quote by John D. Rockefeller — Download Open image

“Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?”

John D. Rockefeller

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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

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To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!

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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

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