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.
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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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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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 secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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Competition is a sin.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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