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. ROCKEFELLEROwn nothing, control everything.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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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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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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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.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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