Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERSingleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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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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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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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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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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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 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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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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The 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.
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