Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLEROur cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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Competition is a sin.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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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?
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The 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.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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