I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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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 was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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