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

John D. Rockefeller

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My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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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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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.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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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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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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God gave me my money.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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.
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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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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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