The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERMy 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?”
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
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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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The common denominator for success is work.
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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 wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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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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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
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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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