Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThink of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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