Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGod gave me my money.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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 way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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 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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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.
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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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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
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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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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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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 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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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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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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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 you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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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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Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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