Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERCharacter – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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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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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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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 believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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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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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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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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