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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI 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.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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I think it is a man’s duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
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Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.
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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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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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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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