John D. Rockefeller on power
John D. Rockefeller112 quotes“To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!”
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller 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?
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller 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.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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Thomas PaineThomas Paine All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
Thomas PaineThomas Paine A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Gaur Gopal DasGaur Gopal Das A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
Thomas PaineThomas Paine The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
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