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!
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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When 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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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.
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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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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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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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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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Own nothing, control everything.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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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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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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