It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERMy 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?”
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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