Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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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 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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is 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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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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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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