I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe common denominator for success is work.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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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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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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God gave me my money.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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 common denominator for success is work.
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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.
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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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