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.
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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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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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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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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Competition is a sin.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
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I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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