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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

John D. Rockefeller

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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Achievement Growth Limitation Ourselves Purpose Tax Wisdom
The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Children Father Learning Mother Perfection Simplicity Task Teaching
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
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Believe Happiness Himself Life Pursuit Right
The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Business Early Hard Work Hustle Secret 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 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
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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Born Element Food Wealth Yourself
Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Character Position Power Supreme Wealth Word
Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Competition Cost Difficult Himself Ignorance Intelligent Man Run Strong Time
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Character Establishment Man Reputation Responsibility Success Young
It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Business Myself Rule Worth
The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Combination Return Stay Unique
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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Business Capital See Work
There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Better Feeling Lose Sacrifice World
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?
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Achievement Art Failure Focus Mindset Time

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