God gave me my money.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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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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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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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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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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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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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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