I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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 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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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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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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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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 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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Own nothing, control everything.
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