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Work Hard And Find Oil
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008 (message contributor)
Work Hard and Find Oil
According to Forbes Magazine, Warren Buffet is the wealthiest man on earth, with a net worth of $62 billion. If you compare his net worth to our nation’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product), however, his relative wealth is less than half of what John D. Rockefeller had when he died. Rockefeller’s $1.4 billion was about 1.5% of the United States GDP; Buffet’s wealth is less than 1% of our country’s GDP.
So the story told that John D. Rockefeller was once asked, "What is the secret for becoming wealthy?" Rockefeller responded: "There are three simple rules for anyone who wants to become rich: 1) Go to work early. 2) Stay at work late. 3) Find oil on your land. Probably good advice, today even more so than in the 1870s when Rockefeller’s Standard Oil created a monopoly out of its headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio.
From a sermon by Glenn Durham, "A Dynamic Church Shares Generously" 7/29/2008
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