The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIt is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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I raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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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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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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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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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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