It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLEROur cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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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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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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