Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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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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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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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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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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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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