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?”
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLEROften-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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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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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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God gave me my money.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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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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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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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?
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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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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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