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Mind Matters
Your Thoughts
Determine
Your Direction!
How you see yourself, is how you approach life advises Dr Monika Dass
Your thoughts determine your direction. He started a company called Standard Oil,
It is impossible to act in a way that is which after an antitrust suit, was broken
inconsistent with the way you see yourself. into 34 companies, two of which include
How you see yourself, is how you approach small companies like Exxon Mobile and
life. If you believe you cannot get ahead, Chevron. He was a 90% shareholder in
then the chances are you never will, those companies. Hence, J D Rockefeller,
however if you believe you can get ahead, of course, multi, multi billionaire, was
the chances are you probably will. so wealthy he would lend money to the
“J D Rockefeller is an interesting federal government when they got in
personality. Some people call him a trouble. This is true!
wonderful business titan, other people call His childhood was a strange one. He had
him a robber baron. You cannot deny the a father who was con man. His mother
fact that he achieved quite a bit with his brought him up on her own. She taught
life, and he has, in fact, from a financial him a moral life and he really was a moral
standpoint, achieved more than any other man. He said, ‘I never took a sip of alcohol,
person in history. All things considered, or tobacco, and I always treated my staff
he is probably the wealthiest person who with compassion.
has ever lived, certainly the wealthiest in One of the interesting things about J D
modern times. Rockefeller is how generous he was, even
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