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Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

John D. Rockefeller

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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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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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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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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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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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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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I 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?
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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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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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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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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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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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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.
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