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"The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay."
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"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."

"Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him."

"We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don't we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy."

"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."

"All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem."
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"Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society."


"The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital."


"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."


"Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare."


"We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men."


"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."


"There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America."


"A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son."
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