I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERDon’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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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 believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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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 can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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Competition is a sin.
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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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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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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 ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
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