Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe 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.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
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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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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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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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Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.
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To think! All that power and he wasn’t even rich!
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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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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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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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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
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I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.
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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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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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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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