Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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?”
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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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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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?
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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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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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.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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