I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERNext to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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 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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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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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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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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