If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGet rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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God gave me my money.
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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 very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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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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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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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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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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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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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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I 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.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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