Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERDon’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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Competition is a sin.
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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 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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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My 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?”
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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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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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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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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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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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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