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. ROCKEFELLERThe secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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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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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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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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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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 success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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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God gave me my money.
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
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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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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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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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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 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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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