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?”
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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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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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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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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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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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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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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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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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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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’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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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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