When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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 can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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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 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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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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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 do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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