If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGiving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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Competition is a sin.
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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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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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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 man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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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 to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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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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Own nothing, control everything.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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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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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