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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERSave when you can and not when you have to.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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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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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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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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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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The common denominator for success is work.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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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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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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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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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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