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. ROCKEFELLERThat 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.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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.
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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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God gave me my money.
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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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