My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERSave when you can and not when you have to.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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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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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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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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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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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 impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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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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