After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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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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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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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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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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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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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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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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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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