Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERDo 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?
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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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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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
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