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?
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThink of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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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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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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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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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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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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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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