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.
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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Competition is a sin.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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 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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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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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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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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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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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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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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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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