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.
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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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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I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.
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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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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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Competition is a sin.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
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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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When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
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I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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The common denominator for success is work.
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The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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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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