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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.

John D. Rockefeller

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. ROCKEFELLER

Competition Cost Difficult Himself Ignorance Intelligent Man Run Strong Time
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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Achievement Business Goal Money Yourself
Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Blame Department Marketing Responsibility Stop
Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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Capital Force Intelligence Legislation Restriction Wild
I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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Best Company Competition Myself Price Success
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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Better Business Friendship Inspirational Success
It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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Important People Remember Yourself
The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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Greatness Men Service Successful World
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Devotion Happiness Life Myself Thinking
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?”
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Choice Creativity Deep Freedom Mother Myself Wife
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Generosity Investing Way
Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Charity Generosity Priviledge Thinking
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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Goodness Himself Men Oil Poor Remember Work
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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Advice Business College Education Men Myself Rule Thinking Training Young
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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Government Law Men Money Right
I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Born Element Food Wealth Yourself

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