You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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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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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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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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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 should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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God gave me my money.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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