Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Own nothing, control everything.
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I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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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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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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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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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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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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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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