I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a … - John D. Rockefeller

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I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.

John D. Rockefeller

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.

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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

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Many people who have lost out in the last few decades voted for Trump. Trump will have a difficult time turning them into winners. The jobs of these people are not at risk because of Chinese or Mexican workers, but because of robots and computers. And new trade barriers and higher tariffs are not going to change that.

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I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.

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As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

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