Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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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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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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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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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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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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