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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERCharity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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The 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.
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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 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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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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God gave me my money.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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