I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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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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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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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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