Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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 day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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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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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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God gave me my money.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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 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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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.
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