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. ROCKEFELLERCharity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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 don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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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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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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 was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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