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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John D. Rockefeller
— John D. Rockefeller
Industrialist and philanthropist
As quoted in Complete Speaker's and Toastmaster's Library (1992) edited by Jacob Morton Braude and Glenn Van Ekeren

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