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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers

John D. Rockefeller

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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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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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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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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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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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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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?”
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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 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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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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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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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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