The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERAfter it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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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 believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
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I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.
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The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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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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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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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There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
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Competition is a sin.
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I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
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If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.
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Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!
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