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. ROCKEFELLERThink of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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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.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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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 dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Competition is a sin.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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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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