A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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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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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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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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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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God gave me my money.
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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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