Character – not wealth, power, or position – is the supreme word.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERI can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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The 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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Own nothing, control everything.
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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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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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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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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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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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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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The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
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