To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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 had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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Competition is a sin.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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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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