Save when you can and not when you have to.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERCharity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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 have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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