I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
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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.
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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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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 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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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