Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERCharacter – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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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 your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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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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I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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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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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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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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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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