I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERDo 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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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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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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God gave me my money.
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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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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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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 essential for success in life.
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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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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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