Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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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 was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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