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?”
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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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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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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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 do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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