The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGod gave me my money.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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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 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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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Competition is a sin.
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