I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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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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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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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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Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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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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