If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIt has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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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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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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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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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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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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