Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIt is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!
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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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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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