I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERDon’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
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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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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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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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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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.
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