If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
About this quote
- Attributed to
- John D. Rockefeller
- Source
- As quoted in Complete Speaker's and Toastmaster's Library (1992) edited by Jacob Morton Braude and Glenn Van Ekeren
- Attribution status
- ✓ Verified source
- Verification
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Photo: Basile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · Portrait: Published by Scientific American Compiling Dep't, New York. 1907. (Public domain)
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