How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERDo you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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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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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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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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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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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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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 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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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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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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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 would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Competition is a sin.
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