I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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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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Own nothing, control everything.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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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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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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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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