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?”
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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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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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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