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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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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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The 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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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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