Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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 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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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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I raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
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Competition is a sin.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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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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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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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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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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