Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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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 have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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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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I raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit, a reputation, character.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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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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Competition is a sin.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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.
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