I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe 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 believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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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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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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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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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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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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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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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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Competition is a sin.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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