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.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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Competition is a sin.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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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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I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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!
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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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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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