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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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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 believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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