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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERSingleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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God gave me my money.
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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