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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

John D. Rockefeller

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Inspirational Smart Success
Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Annoy Feeling Life Lose World Yourself
There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Better Feeling Lose Sacrifice World
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. ROCKEFELLER

Book Happiness Myself Oil People Reading Truth
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Believe Happiness Himself Life Pursuit Right
Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Achievement Growth Limitation Ourselves Purpose Tax Wisdom
I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Beginning Charity Giving Myself Religious
Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Believe Control Education Myself Position Power Try
If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Election Identity Myself Name
I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Company Hard Work Myself Way Work
Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Believe Condition Country Fundamental Myself Son Sound
Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Beginning Blessing Foundation Life Man Men Struggle Young
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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Ability Business Coffee Deal Inspirational Myself Pay Sun
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. ROCKEFELLER

Achievement Art Failure Focus Mindset Time
And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Better Book Lessons Old Ourselves Religious Scripture Study Thinking Time
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Inspirational Leadership Nature Perseverance Quality Success Thinking

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