Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERWhen a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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 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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Own nothing, control everything.
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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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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything 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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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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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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