Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Competition is a sin.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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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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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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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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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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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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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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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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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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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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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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