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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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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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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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God gave me my money.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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