I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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I 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 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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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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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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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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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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 shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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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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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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