I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERDon’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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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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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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I believe the power to make money is a gift from God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
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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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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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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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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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Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
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