I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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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Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.
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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 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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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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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Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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 had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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