I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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 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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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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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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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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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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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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