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.
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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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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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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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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Own nothing, control everything.
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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 success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn’t you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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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.
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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 believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
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Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.
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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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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity? I care about others as well.
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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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Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.
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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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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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