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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI’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.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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 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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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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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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Competition is a sin.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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