There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe common denominator for success is work.
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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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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Own nothing, control everything.
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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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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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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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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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