I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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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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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 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 had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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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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Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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