Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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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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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 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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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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