I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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 was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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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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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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