Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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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 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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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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God gave me my money.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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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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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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