The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERCompetition is a sin.
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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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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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