I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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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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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’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.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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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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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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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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