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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERBe sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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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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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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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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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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