The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son
No one can block our way home unless we do not want to come back. Let the light of the soul shine on our way forward.
These are life lessons from J.D. Rockefeller Sr. to his son. I read it over the course of months, coming back to each new letter as a source of inspiration when I had a few minutes to spare (often on commutes). Perhaps because I’m already exposed to self-help twitter (the algorithm is making it a pain to get off it), very few of the ideas feel truly “novel” though they are definitely lindy. I’ve found it immensely helpful to read and be reminded as I’ve been trying to “live” this form of wisdom.
I always romanticized writing emails to my children to read when they grow up, so I hope to do something similar. I appreciate that life lessons can come from the smallest of moments and that those types of anecdotes and details can hold the best memories.
Compressed succinctly, this book would read as:
Never trade upside for comfort. Believe in yourself first. Master details obsessively. Give selflessly. Act early. Commit fully. Accept responsibility. Endure hardship. Seek victory. Listen more than you speak. Build wealth with friends. Avoid excuses.
Selections
The privileged but powerless people are a waste, while the educated but unaffected people are a pile of worthless garbage.
For strategic considerations, the first target I chose to conquer was not a small company that was vulnerable, but the strongest opponent, Clark Payne. This company was well-known in Cleveland and were ambitious, as they wanted to acquire my star oil refinery. But before the opponent decides, I will have to strike first to gain the upper hand. I took the initiative to meet the largest shareholder of Clark Payne, my old friend in middle school, Mr. Oliver Payne, and I told him that the chaotic and sluggish era of the oil industry should end in order to protect the industry that countless families depend on for survival. I wanted to build a huge, high-performance oil company, and welcomed him to join. My plan impressed Payne, and finally they agreed to sell the company for 400,000 dollars. I know that Clark Payne is not worth that amount at all, but I did not reject them. Acquiring Clark Payne meant that I would gain the title of the world’s largest oil refinery and will also serve as a strong pioneer in the industry to efficiently bring together the refiners in Cleveland.
The fable said: In ancient Europe, a man found himself in a wonderful place where he could enjoy everything in his afterlife. As soon as he stepped into the piece of music, someone who looked like a waiter came over and asked him: “Sir, do you have any needs? Here you can have everything you want: delicious food, all possible forms of entertainment and all kinds of pastimes, amongst diem are many beautiful young women where you can enjoy as you please.” After listening to the waiter, the man was a little surprised, but very happy, as he happily thought to himself: “this is not my dream in the world” Throughout the day he had been tasting all of the delicious food while enjoying the taste of beauty. However, one day, he was bored, so he said to the waiter: “I am bored from all of this and I need to do something. Can you find me a job to do?” He did not expect that the answer he received was the waiter shaking his head: “Sorry, my sir, this is the only thing we can’t do for you here. There is no work here for you.” The man was very frustrated and waved his hand angrily as he said, “This is really bad! Then I will just stay in hell!” “Where do you think you’re at”, said the waiter gently.
But some people are obviously not smart enough. They have ambitions but are too picky about their work. They are always looking for a “perfect” employer or job. The fact is that employers need punctual, honest, and hardworking employees. They only leave the salary increase and promotion opportunities to those employees who work hard, are very loyal, extra zealous, and spend more time doing things, because they are running a business, not a charity; they need those who are more valuable.
The more difficult or unpleasant the work is, the more urgent it is to accomplish it. The longer he waits, the more difficult and scarier it becomes. This is a bit like shooting a gun. The longer you aim, the lower the chance of you pulling the trigger.
The work bench is a type of attitude; it determines whether we are happy or not. In a group of stone masons who are doing the same job sculpting stone statues, if you were to ask them, “what are you doing here?” One of them might say, “You see, I am chiseling stone, and I can go home after chiseling this piece.” This kind of person always treats work as a punishment, and the word he often spits out from his mouth is “tired”. Another person might say: “You see, I am making a statue. This is a very hard job, but the compensation is very high. After all, I have a wife and four children, and they need food and clothing.” Regarding work as a burden, a sentence he often spits out from his mouth is “feeding his family”. The third person may put down the hammer and proudly point to the stone carving and say, “You see, I am making a work of art.” This kind of person always takes pride in and enjoys his work and often cites: “this job is very meaningful.”
To have the habit of doing now, the most important thing is to have a proactive spirit, get rid of the habit of being distracted, be determined to be a person of initiatives, be courageous in doing things, don’t wait until everything is ready, there will never be absolute perfection.
Whether it is to win wealth or to win in life, what good people think about in competition is not what they will lose, but what they should do to become a winner.
Honesty is a method and a strategy. Because I paid with my own honesty, I have won the trust of bankers and more people, and because of it I survived numerous difficult times, and embarked on an expressway to success.
Managing and using money is different from the determination to make money and it requires different beliefs. To manage and use money, you must be willing to manage the numbers yourself, and not just simply talk about management and strategy. God is shown in the details. If you neglect these details, or detach from the details, and authorize this “miscellaneous task” to others to do, it is equivalent to neglecting at least half of your important business responsibility. The details should never hinder enthusiasm. To be successful you need to remember two things: one is tactics and the other is strategy.
Once avoiding failure becomes your motivation for doing things, you embark on a path of laziness and powerlessness.
Look at those poor people and you will know that they are not incompetent or stupid neither are they not hard-working. They are deprived from opportunities.
Only realizing this after graduating, but ‘opportunity cost’ is the way you make real money in a career working for other people. You always need another bidder.
Failure is a good thing as long as it does not become a habit.
Fundamental expectations, like a broom in the hands of a cleaner, will sweep away all the trash that you face when on your way to success. Son, what are your fundamental expectations?
Optimistic people will see opportunity in suffering, and pessimistic people will see suffering in opportunity.
If you declare spiritual/mental bankruptcy, you will lose everything.
Too many people overestimate what they lack, but underestimate what they have. Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
The great Greek orator Demosthenes, he was shy because he stuttered. After his father died, he left him a piece of land in hopes that he could live a prosperous life. However, the Greek law at the time stipulated that he must win the ownership of the land by debating in public before declaring his right to own the land. Unfortunately, because of his stuttering and shyness, he suffered a fiasco, and as a result he lost that piece of land. But he was not knocked down, instead he worked hard to better himself. As a result, he created an unprecedented speech climax. History has overlooked the man who acquired his property, but for centuries, the whole of Europe has remembered a great name— Demosthenes.
I hate it when my business fails and lose money, but what really concerns me is that I am afraid that in future business, I will be too cautious and become a coward. If that is the case, then my loss will be even greater.
“You can’t sharpen your razor on a velvet.”
As we continue to reach the peak, we must remember: each step of the ladder allows us enough time to step on, and then set foot to a higher level, it is not for us to rest.
Confidence produces the attitude of believing in “I can do it”, and the attitude of believing in “I can do it” can produce the abilities, skills, and energy. Whenever you believe that “I can do it”, you will naturally come up with a “how to solve” method, and success is born once you successfully solve the problem.
Everyone hopes that one day they can reach the highest level and enjoy the fruits of success that follows. However, most of them do not have the required confidence and determination, hence they cannot reach the top. It is also because they believe that they cannot reach it, so they find a route to take where they cannot reach the top, and their actions always stay at the level of ordinary people.
Faith is the father of success. Victory is a habit, and failure is also a habit.
I do not like to achieve a certain amount of victory. What I want is sustained victory. Only in this way can I become a strong one. Confidence motivates me to succeed.
Believing in success is a basic and absolutely necessary element possessed by successful people. But the loser has graciously discarded these.
I have talked to many people who have failed in their business and have heard countless reasons and excuses for failure. When these losers were speaking, they would often unwittingly say: “To be honest, I didn’t think it would work.” “I felt uneasy before I started.” “In fact, it’s not too surprising that this has failed.”
Adopting an attitude of “I will give it a try, but I don’t think there will be any results” will lead to failure in the end. “Disbelief is a negative force. When you disagree or have doubts in your mind, you will come up with various reasons to support your “disbelief’. Suspicion, disbelief, the tendency to fail subconsciously, and the lack of desire to succeed are the main causes of failure.
Successful people are just ordinary people who believe in themselves and affirm what they do. Never, never sell yourself cheaply.
Everyone is a product of his thoughts, thinking about small goals, will lead to small results. Thinking of great goals will win great success. And great ideas and big plans usually come easier than small ones, at least it will not be more difficult.
I always adhered to a principle: I can deceive the enemy, but I never deceive myself. Fighting back at the enemy who is shooting me will never disturb my conscience.
I only show my feelings when the situation is only beneficial to myself; I can let my opponent teach me, but I will never teach my opponent, no matter how much I know about it; think twice about everything, no matter how others may urge, do not act without making a full consideration; I have my own truth, only responsible for myself; be careful of those who ask me to treat them sincerely, they want to reap benefits from me.
A gentleman will never argue with the ignorant, and I certainly will not argue with those who “praised” my greed, but I cannot refrain from despising their ignorance.
The subtext of greed is that, I want more, and monopolize it! Who has never made me cry in my heart? Politicians will say, I want to be in power, and I want to be the governor before being the president. Businesspeople will say, I want to make money, I want to make more money. Parents will say that I hope my son can achieve something and live a prosperous and happy life forever. And so on. Only when limited by morality, dignity, and face value, can people tightly cover up greed and make greed a taboo.
I want to become the largest oil refiner in Cleveland, let the flowing oil creek turn into bundles of banknotes, I want to align every thought to profit motives and help myself become the king of oil. In the early days, I would do everything by myself and work all day long. I direct oil refining, organize railway transportation, and contemplate how to save costs and expand the petroleum byproduct market. I will never forget the days that left me starving and rushing around day and night.
Dedicate everything, remove all obstacles, and move forward at full speed.
In fact, I do not like money. What I like is making money. What I like is the good feeling of victory.
The people who can get ahead in this world are those who know how to find their ideal environment. If they cannot do it, they will create it themselves.
First, we terminated all business dealings with Pennsylvania Railroad Company. I instructed our subordinates to transfer the transportation business to the two major railway companies drat have always firmly supported us, asked them to reduce freight rates, compete with Pennsylvania Railroad Company, weaken its power; and at the same time order all refineries in Pittsburgh that depend on the Empire Company for transportation to close; subsequently they instructed all its own refineries that were in competition with the Empire Company to sell refined oil at prices far lower than them. Pennsylvania Railroad Company is the largest transportation company in the United States. Mr. Scott held large power when it comes to transportation. They were proud that they have never been conquered. But under my three-dimensional oppressive style of play, they could only surrender.
And compliance does not mean that we must lower our determination to pursue victory, but it means using an ethical way to win a clear victory, and it also means that under such restrictions, we must strive to pursue victory fairly and ruthlessly. I hope you can do this.
Once any person develops a habit, whether it is good or bad, the habit will always possess him. The habit of eating lunch for nothing will not help a person progress, but only make him lose the chance to win. But hard work is the only reliable way out.
“Gentlemen,” he said: “This is really the crystallization of the wisdom of all ages, and once people everywhere know this truth, most of our problems can be solved.” This saying is what we have known as: “There is no free lunch in the world.”
Don’t be the smartest person in the room. The importance of positive leadership is to give compliments to people.
You should be clear that knowledge is originally empty, and unless knowledge is put into action, nothing will happen.
To endure hardship deliberately is one of my beliefs of success.
What you get from hardship is having the ability to build your career on a solid ground, not in quicksand. People must have foresight, and only after a long period of hardship can they have a long-term harvest.
I just hope you are good at doing small things. Doing small things is the cornerstone of making big things. If you are at the top from the beginning, you will not consider the mood of your subordinates, and you will not be able to use others.
There are only two kinds of smart people in the world: one is smart people who use themselves, such as artists, scholars, and actors; the other is smart people who use others, such as managers and leaders. The latter needs a special ability - the ability to grasp the heart.
Everyone needs to know that all knowledge will be transformed into preconceived notions, and the result will be one-sided conservative psychology, thinking that “I understand”, “I understand”, and “society is like this”. With the prejudice of “understanding”, there will be a lack of interest in knowing, and if there is no interest, it will lose the motivation to move forward, and only boredom is left waiting.
A person who is smart is a fool, and a person who knows how to play a fool is really smart.
To this day, I can clearly remember a scene of pretending to be stupid. At that time, I was thinking about how to raise 15,000 dollars, and I was thinking about it when I walked on the street. Interestingly speaking, just as my mind was flashing with the idea of borrowing or borrowing money, a banker blocked my way. He whispered from the carriage: “Do you want to spend fifty thousand dollars, Mr. Rockefeller?” Am I lucky? I did not believe my ears even a slightest bit. But at that moment, I did not show even the slightest eagerness. I looked at the other person’s face and told him slowly: “That’s it... Can you give me twenty-four hours to think about it?” As a result, signed a loan contract with him on terms that were the most favorable to me.
Playing stupid brings you many benefits. The meaning of pretending to be stupid is to stay a low profile and become humble, in other words, to hide your cleverness. The smarter the person, the more necessary it is for them to play stupid, because as the saying goes — the more mature the rice, the more they sag.
Son, only after having hobbies can you then do it with ease. Now, start to love acting like a fool!
“Let me wait before talking” is the motto I always follow in business.
When I was young, I believed in a law of success: wealth is an accident, a by-product of hard work.
Today, even though I am nearly seventy years old, I still fight in the business world, because I know that the quickest way to end my life is to do nothing. Everyone has the right to choose retirement as the beginning or the end. That kind of idle attitude to life can poison people. I always think of retirement as starting again, and I have never stopped fighting for a day, because I know the true meaning of life.
Just pay a little attention and you will find that those who have not done anything or plan to do something, often have a basket of straw hats to explain: why he could not achieve it, why he did not do it, why he could not do it, why is he not the right person. The first action that the loser takes to settle the later events is to find various reasons for his failure.
At first, he still knows how much his excuse arelies, but after repeated usage, he will become more and more convinced thatit is completely true, and believe that this excuse was the real reason for his failure, and as a result his brain begins to be lazy and rigid, and the motivation to work hard to win in any way will be reduced to zero.
Occasionally, I have seen someone stand up and say: “I succeeded by my own efforts.” So far, I have not seen any man or woman, dare to stand up and say: “I am the one who made myself fail.”
“I have been annoyed by my broken shoes until I met a man who has no feet.” It is better to be grateful for your health than to complain about your discomfort.
I found that most people have two basic wrong attitudes towards “intelligence”: too underestimating their own brain power, and too overestimating the brain power of others. Because of these mistakes, many people despise themselves. They do not want to face challenges, because that requires considerable talent
the only key is to have a strong interest and enthusiasm for doing business. Interest and enthusiasm are important factors that determine success or failure
Why do so many talented individual fails? Here is the reason. If an extremely smart person is always using their amazing intellect to prove why things cannot succeed, instead of guiding their minds to find various ways to succeed, the fate of failure will find them. Negative thoughts have implicated their intelligence, making them unable to use their skills to accomplish anything
The way of thinking that guides us to use our intelligence is far more important than the level of our intelligence. Even the highest degree of education cannot change this basic rule of success. The educational level of innate talent is not the reason behind good performance, but the management of one’s thoughts. The best businessmen never have unfounded worry, but they are passionate. It is not easy to improve thequality of talent, but it is easy to improve the method of using talent.
Knowledge is only a kind of potential power. Only when knowledge is applied constructively,then will it show its power
He will often remind himself: My mentality is more important than my intelligence; He has a strong desire to establish a “I will win” attitude; He knows to use his intellect to actively create and find ways to succeed, not to prove that he will, fail; He also knows that thinking is more valuable than memorizing. He needs to use his mind to create and develop new ideas, find better new ways of doing things, and remind himself at any time: Am I using my mind to create history? Or is it just recording the history created by others?
the process of pursuing career success, the most important step is to prevent yourself from making excuses.
if you feel that you are a winner, you will behave like a winner; if you behave like a winner, you are likely to do more of what winners would do, thereby changing your “luck”.
It is impossible to find the best way to do anything. The best way to find the best idea is to have lots of ideas.
My principle of employing people is that those who are entrusted with important tasks are those who can find ways to do things better.
Before I started working with Roger, I tested him with a question. I said, “Mr. Roger, what do you think the government can do to abolish all prisons in thirty years?” He was confused when he heard it, and suspected that he had heard it wrong. After a while of silence, he began to refute me: “Dear Rockefeller Sir, do you mean to release all the murderers, robbers, and rapists? Do you know the consequences of doing this? If that’s the case, we will not have peace. In anyway, there must be a prison.” I wanted to smash Rogers’ monolithic head, and I reminded him: “Roger, you only said the reasons why the prison cannot be abolished. Now, try to believe that the prison can be abolished. Assuming it can be abolished, how should we proceed?” “This is too hard for me, Mr. Rockefeller, I can’t believe it, and it’s hard for me to find a way to abolish it.” This is Rogers’s method — no way. I cannot imagine how he will use all his talents to actively react when he is given a heavy responsibility, or when an opportunity or a crisis hit. I do not trust Roger; he will only turn hope into hopelessness.
When we believe that something is impossible to do, our brain will find various reasons for us not to do it.
I do not ask myself: Can I do better? I know I can do it, so I ask: How can I do better?
How can I do better today? How can I motivate employees today? What special services can I provide for the company? How can I make my work more efficient? This exercise is simple, but very useful.
Most people fail, not because they make mistakes, but because they are not fully committed.
“The end is just the beginning.”
success is a process of continuous reproduction, just like a prolific cow. When it gives birth to a calf, it immediately becomes pregnant with another. Back and forth, endlessly. The end is the last stop of a journey and the beginning of a new dream. Every great successful person builds himself up with small successes. They celebrate the realization of their dreams with the ending and at the same time, mark the beginning of their new dreams.
from the beginning you have to do everything possible in order to get an advantage. My experience tells me that there are three strategies that give me an advantage.
The first strategy: Make up your mind from the beginning and pay attention to the competition and the resources of competitors.
The second strategy: research and review the opponent’s situation, and then make good use of this knowledge to form your advantages. Understanding the strengths, weaknesses, style of doing things, and personality traits of my opponents always gives me an advantage in the competition. Of course, I also need to know who I am.
When others do not regard you as an opponent, it is when you earn the most capital for future competition.
In a competition, the person who first discovers the opponent’s weakness and strikes hard is often the winner.
The third strategy: You must have the right mindset. From the beginning, you must make up your mind to pursue victory, which means that you must act positively and ruthlessly under moral constraints, because this attitude comes directly from cruel and ruthless goals.
They will ridicule themselves: “We earn more than ordinary people, and our lives are better than ordinary people. Why are we still dissatisfied and want to take risks?” In fact, such people already have a sense of fear. They are afraid of failure, afraid that everyone will disagree with them, afraid of an accident, and afraid of losing what they already have. They are not satisfied, but they have surrendered.
In any place, there are people who know they cannot succeed but they insist on blocking your way up and preventing you from attaining higher levels. Many people are ridiculed or even intimidated because of their ambitions
Asking a loser for advice is as ridiculous as asking a quack to treat a terminal illness. Your future is very important. Do not ask for advice from a yenta, because this kind of person has no prospects in their lives.
sometimes it is easier to become an excellent leader full of confidence and vitality than to become a leader who has lost vitality and is struggling and helpless, provided that he needs to know how to make his subordinates willing to give up their lives.
People can change their lives by changing their attitudes. If you believe that you can change your attitude you can change it.
If you are unable to actively establish your own goals, you will passively or unconsciously choose other goals.
when you have the courage to be honest about your purpose, you will gain emotional loyalty.
The purpose of resolute will and absolute tenacity can often inspire and encourage subordinates, so that they can deliver more outstanding performance in the future work.
“John, I know, you lead a group of very capable people. But I do not think their talents are extraordinary, but what puzzles me is that they seem to be invincible and can always easily defeat your competitors. I want to know what magic you have done to make them have that kind of spirit. Is it the power of money?”
Everyone at Standard Oil Company has a sense of responsibility, and they all know “What is my responsibility? What can I do to make things better?” But I never talk about responsibilities or obligations. I just create a sense of responsibility in the company through my leadership.
if we want to survive forever, our leadership style means we have to refuse blaming anyone or anything for any reason. The habit of blaming is like a swamp. Once you stumble and fall into it, you will lose your footing and direction, you will become unable to move and then fall into the predicament of hatred and frustration. There is only one result: losing the respect and support of your subordinates. Once you fall into this field, you are like a king who has handed over the crown to others, unable to dominate anything anymore.
when a problem arises, I will not feel resentful or dissatisfied. I will just think how can the situation get better? What actions can be taken to solve or repair the situation? Or how can we actively choose to move towards higher productivity and satisfaction.
If I can treat every obstacle as an opportunity to understand myself, rather than care about what others have done to me, then I can find a way out of the face of adversities.
Nothing can stimulate and strengthen the ability to do things like a sense of personal responsibility, and by entrusting the heavy responsibilities to my subordinates and letting them understand that I fully trust them is undoubtedly the greatest help to them. Therefore, I will not take the responsibilities that my subordinates must and can bear.
There is no blame or excuses at Standard Oil! This is the philosophy I insist on, everyone knows that. I will not punish them for making mistakes, but I will never tolerate irresponsible behavior.
almost all people have the defensive psychology of shirking real responsibility, so that the phenomenon of appointing committee responsibility can be seen everywhere. But it is harmful. The way to avoid defense is to start listening.
The biggest challenge for leaders is how to create an environment in which people feel that being open is more comfortable than hiding the truth. Proactively invite others to state their thoughts and encourage them to speak out with words such as “Say a little more” or “I really want to hear your opinion.” Contrary to what most people believe, in a dialogue, the listener is the one who has the power, not the declarant.
When you listen attentively, the original presenter will be more willing to listen to your opinions
Listening attentively is less like a technique, it is more like an attitude. A skier spends 100% of his attention when encountering obstacles, and he will never be distracted to think about what he wants to say to his partner later. In the same way, as an active listener, you give 100% of your attention to another person, and you will not want to blurt out what you think. In this way, you get rid of preconceived notions and open your mind to create a more meaningful and effective dialogue.
Do what you like to do, and leave other things to the people who like to do it.
If you don’t devote time to the things you love, you will never feel self-satisfied; if you don’t have self-satisfaction, you will lose the passion for life; if you lose the passion for life , you will lose the motivation of life. Counting on a person who has lost the motivation to do a job well is like counting on a clock that has stopped to tell the time accurately. It is ridiculous.
My purpose is to find the value that I value in every subordinate, not the shortcomings that I do not like. I find out what each employee is worthy of attention and strengths, and I am committed to turning the strengths of the employees into outstanding talents without trying to correct their shortcomings. Therefore, I always have subordinates who are capable and willing to contribute
John, no matter what you do, the best way to find the perfect idea is to have a lot of ideas. Before making the best decision, I will devote myself to look
For creative and effective options, consider a variety of possibilities, and actively try various options, and then focus on the best option.
You need to refrain from the urge to find simple, one-way solutions. Be willing to try various possible ways to achieve your goals, and have the patience to act in the face of difficulties, courage and resourcefulness, as well as the perseverance of never letting go without reaching the goal.
Whether we are drawing up a plan for a company or a single department, we must confirm that what we are drawing up is a strategy, not a means. The essence of strategy is flexibility, longterm, multi-faceted, and large-scale. They emphasize results such as how to grow or expand profits, rather than a measurable goal. At the same time, the strategy provides a general direction, not the only way to achieve success
There is only one way to overcome despair, and that is to continue to create possibilities to overcome obstacles. Simply put, hope comes from believing that there are alternatives.
When the situation seems to have fallen to the bottom and is irretrievable, they are like brave wrestlers, even if they are suppressed by their opponents
And it is difficult to get out, they will never give up any opportunity to turn over
What is more noble than having huge wealth is to serve the motherland in accordance with the needs of the motherland.
Our money is only used to create value for mankind, and we must not give any selfish people a little bit of benefit.
We are in an era where we continuously satisfy our needs below the neck but ignore the needs above the neck.
It would be great if an empty mind could be like an empty belly, needing to be filled up to satisfy the owner. Unfortunately, there is no such thing, but to accept the punishment of spiritual emptiness.
One must find one’s own home, so as not to wander or become a beggar.
Two years ago, when Mr. Carl Jung and I met unexpectedly, the psychologist told me a story: a man was trapped by a flood, and he had to climb to the roof to take refuge. Someone among the neighbors floated over and said, “John, the water is really terrible this time, isn’t it?” John replied, “No, it’s not that bad.” The neighbor was a little surprised, so he retorted, “How can you say that? Your chicken coop has been washed away.” John said, “Yes, I know, but I started raising ducks six months ago, and now they are all swimming nearby. Everything is fine.” “But, John, this time the water ruined your crops,” the neighbor insisted. John replied: “No. The crops I planted were damaged due to lack of water. Just last week, someone told me that my land needs more water, so it’s solved now.” The pessimistic neighbor once again said to the smiling John: “But look, John, the water is still rising. It’s about to rise to the level of your window.” The optimistic John smiled happily and said: “I hope so, these windows are really dirty and need to be cleaned.”
Everyone can change or be changed. Mr. Jung said that as long as a person changes his vocabulary, he can build his income, his enjoyment, and improve his life, and even change his life.
The lumberjack’s output will decline, just because he did not spare time to sharpen him and his axe?
“Pushing to the Front” by Orison Swett Marden
The driving force that led people to climb to the peak is a driving force that is maintained and emphasized regularly and is growing stronger. Those who have a successful life can undoubtedly realize that there is a lot of space in the peak, but there is not enough space for people to sit and stay.
No one can block our way home unless we do not want to come back. Let the light of the soul shine on our way forward.
Jesus wanted to teach his disciples what mission they should shoulder and what influence they should exert. They came to the world to purify and beautify the world they are in.
Our responsibility now is to dedicate ourselves completely to the world and people around us, and to concentrate on our art of giving.
People are nothing great, but there is nothing greater than people.
The person who thinks the most, feels the noblest, and acts the most righteous, lives the most fulfilling life.
We must teach the students that no matter how low a person’s position is, as long as he performs his duties, the American people should give him as much honor as a king.
Pride always comes before destruction and failure.
I hope everyone here knows that we should live in meaningful actions, not years; we live in feelings, not the numbers on the phone buttons; we live in thoughts, not air; The time should be calculated based on the beating of the heart under the correct goal.