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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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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’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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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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I 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 was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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