Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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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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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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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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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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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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 had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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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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