The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERA friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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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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The common denominator for success is work.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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 shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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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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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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