The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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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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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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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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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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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 believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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