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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.

John D. Rockefeller

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Business Choice Inspirational Money Myself People
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Business Failure Men Myself Successful
The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Business Early Hard Work Hustle Secret Work
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. ROCKEFELLER

Goodness Himself Men Oil Poor Remember Work
Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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Art Creativity Inspirational Motivational Rich
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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Born Element Food Wealth Yourself
I raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Competition Myself Price Smart
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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Achievement Growth Limitation Ourselves Purpose Tax Wisdom
When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Civilization Destruction Expectation Fall See Style Work
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?”
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Choice Creativity Deep Freedom Mother Myself Wife
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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Inspirational Leadership Nature Perseverance Quality Success Thinking
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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Achievement Art Failure Focus Mindset Time
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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Charity Cure Evil Search
There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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Better Feeling Lose Sacrifice World
We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Advice Battle Fight Inspirational Learning Temptation Word
I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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Company Hard Work Myself Way Work

Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.

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