Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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 have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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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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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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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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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!
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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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I raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
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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 day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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Competition is a sin.
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