Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERGiving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Competition is a sin.
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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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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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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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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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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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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The common denominator for success is work.
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