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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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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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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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Competition is a sin.
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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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