Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller         If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. – John D. Rockefeller         I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. – John D. Rockefeller       Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. – John D. Rockefeller     The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave…

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe       “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe       “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in…

“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.” ― John Burroughs     “The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” ― John Burroughs       “One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.” ― John Burroughs         “I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to…