I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGet rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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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.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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