When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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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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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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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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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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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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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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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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