Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERAnd 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.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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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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You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
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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.
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Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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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 to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
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The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
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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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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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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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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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