Competition is a sin.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe 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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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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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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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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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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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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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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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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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.
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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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