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?
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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!
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My 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?”
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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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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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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