Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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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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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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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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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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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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