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John Rockefeller Quotes

“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.”

The John Rockefeller's quote says that if our goal is to be rich, then we will never be rich.

To succeed financially, we must not think about money. As bizarre as this thought is, it is accurate.

Money is aconsequence of something done well and succeeds in selling. If we are a business and have a good product, then we have money.

We are wrong if we think about getting as much money as possible. We must have in mind a journey that produces us, as a consequence, money.

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