I raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERBelieving that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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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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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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 have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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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 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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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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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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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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God gave me my money.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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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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