I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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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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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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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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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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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?”
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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 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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