If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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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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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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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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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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 can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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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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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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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 have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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