Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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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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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 major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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I 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.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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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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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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