I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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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?
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God gave me my money.
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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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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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Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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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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The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
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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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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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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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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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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
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Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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