How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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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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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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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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