Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERIf my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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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 can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
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How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
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The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
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I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
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Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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